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ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE DEDICATION OF THE 
CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG 



FOUR score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth 
on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and 
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that 
nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. 
We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to 
dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who 
here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting 
and proper that we should do this. 

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate— we can not 
consecrate— we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living 
and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our 
poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long 
remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did 
here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished 
work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. 
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining 
before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion 
to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — 
that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in 
vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — 
and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, 
shall not perish from the earth. 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN 

November 19 J 863 " 



An accurate version of the Gettyshurg .\<I<iress as 
revised by Mr. Lincoln and priat<'d in "* Auto- 
graphs of our Coiintr)'s Authors," Baltimore. 1*** 



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